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Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Government

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conventional long form: Union of Burma
conventional short form: Burma
local long form: Pyidaungzu Myanma Naingngandaw (translated by the US Government as Union of Myanma and by the Burmese as Union of Myanmar)
local short form: Myanma Naingngandaw
former: Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma
note: since 1989 the military authorities in Burma have promoted the name Myanmar as a conventional name for their state; this decision was not approved by any sitting legislature in Burma, and the US Government did not adopt the name, which is a derivative of the Burmese short-form name Myanma Naingngandaw

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military junta

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name: Rangoon (Yangon)
geographic coordinates: 16 48 N, 96 09 E
time difference: UTC+6.5 (11.5 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)
note: Nay Pyi Taw is administrative capital

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7 divisions (taing-myar, singular - taing) and 7 states* (pyi ne-myar, singular - pyi ne); Ayeyarwady, Bago, Chin*, Kachin*, Kayah*, Kayin*, Magway, Mandalay, Mon*, Rakhine*, Sagaing, Shan*, Tanintharyi, Yangon

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4 January 1948 (from the UK)

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Independence Day, 4 January (1948); Union Day, 12 February (1947)

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3 January 1974; suspended since 18 September 1988; a new constitution was approved on 10 May 2008; note - new constitution will take effect when a new parliament is convened following elections scheduled for 2010

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